"Princess of cups", "10 of cups. Satiety" and "IX. THE hermit". THOTH TAROT CARD READING/s. These cards were pulled as a triple reading. The Order of the reading is from left to right.

 

"Princess of Cups"

Princess of Cups Thoth tarot shows Aleister Crowley's fondness for Hindu and Buddhist esoteric, with a dancing woman surrounded by a Lotus flower, representing purity and rebirth, upper right side of the card, the Swan above the Princess's head, which in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, particularly Tibetan, represents wisdom and enlightenment.  The river Dolphin, creation and life.  Finally she is holding, in her right hand, an ornamented bowel with a tortoise inside, which is another powerful symbolism of the esoteric, as the tortoise, once again, showing Crowley's affection for Hindu mythology, is seen as the supreme feminine deity that holds the world above its shell.    Yet, it is the Princess who holds the tortoise, announcing how powerful feminine wisdom and intuition can be, as a guide through the waves of life.     

What I like about the Princess of Cups, which comes under the "Princess" set of four cards in the Thoth deck, it is one of the more prominent cards that represent positivity, as opposed to the darker meanings behind the majority of the Thoth cards, although Crowley's dichotomy of light and dark are usually intermixed within its meanings.  The Princess of Cups is more blatantly light, I would read this card as supreme power of the feminine, with its nonchalant care, more so, its care for the self.  The feminine undoubtedly has an intrinsic ability to cater and be self sufficient to its own entity.  Through the great upheaval and turmoil of life, like the waves depicted in the card, she can dance, even if she is carrying the world.  It is carried effortlessly.  To reward the self with the power beyond the material world, can be at times be a material reward.  Such are the diamonds portrayed on the hem of her gown.  You are that diamond within the chaos.  

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"10 of cups. Satiety" is one of Aleister Crowley's more balanced and oracle like cards, and a warning of destabilisation, in Crowley's eyes the planet Mars in Pisces which rules over this card, metaphorically, is seen as a "gross, violent and disruptive force", which he is actually correct. Mars is a radiation filled dead planet, with little or no atmosphere and is constantly pounded by asteroids, massive dust storms and basically nothing can live on that planet. Why would we want to visit it? The balance of the card is the Water, pouring through the Ten of cups, which is to pacify the Mars influence, also equating to Crowley's fixation with the Tree of Life ala the Qabalah.

Reading:

Meditate on the Ten, the first decade of years lived, allow the water to pour through. Be nourished by its flow, as it creates the balance, for the living organism. The bases of elixir and alchemy, the fluid of life. Yes, Mars is a warning, a dead planet, as it moves over Pisces, ravaged by radiation, its atmosphere is thin, unlivable, pounded by the asteroids of chaos. A reminder of destruction and turmoil. Earth is beautiful. It is our home, our lifeforce. Protect it.

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"IX.  The Hermit" is one of Aleister Crowley's better Thoth Tarot cards, and one of the most intriguing, obviously devised by the superior 'Rider–Waite Tarot' cards, Cowley's esoterical mishmash has added extra layers to the card, with Lady Frieda Harris (d1962) geometric art, offering the card's cryptic meaning a beautifully aligned presence.  That being of the Hermit, as a guide within the Universe, obviously of the mind, settling confusion with meditation and holding the lamp as a light bearer in the darkness.  The hebrew letter Yod, is the primary letter attributed to the card, representing 'hand', note the middle of the card of the Hermit's hand holding the lamp and it geometric shards of light, yet Crowley has also infused his desire for female virgins and fertility (also note the wheat in the background), probably attuned to his more Gnostic Christian beliefs, of female purity, and the male's conquest to impregnate.  As on the left corner is a single sperm, to which he decreed from his own interpretation as "poison" that comes up from the lower depths, which is to corrupt 'Crowley's' virgin (?).  In the upper right is the cosmic egg, the snake wrapped around an greenish colored egg, apparently representing Mercury.  One of the redeeming aspects of the "The Hermit" is Cerberus, the Three Headed hound of Hell, which has been tamed by the Hermit, following him behind.   Most likely meaning, that you must tame your fears.

Reading:

Hold in your Left Hand, light.  Even in metaphor, yet the Left Hand Path is the path of darkness, as it shows the darkness of nature, is to tame the human fear, otherwise it becomes a folly.  To know fear, is clearing confusion.  Tibetan Tantric yogis call this meditation, 'the fear that destroys fear'.  Can you meditate alone in the dark?  Within a graveyard?  A charnel ground?  Can you endure?  The Hermit, is the master of all that is solidary, for he is in all of us, both the male and the female, it teaches you that you are indeed your own light bearer.  Master the Hound of Hell, know Hell.  And it will protect you.  Live for life, but know death.  Justice, and peace are born of awareness of the self, tread where no person goes, be in places know person dares to go.  Redeem oneself with no thoughts, allow the memories to dissipated, yet you will know this place by instincts alone, as I have forged my own footsteps, I have empowered my being.  When the Hermit disappears back into the darkness, let it be known, that all must fade too.

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(A.Glass 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)

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